Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here and elsewhere for a number of years. Lehman Hall lot their ethical principles down long enough to imply that the books might get their list some other way, though the University would not give it. The move may very well be, as claimed, part of a plan to save money and at the same time turn over a new moral leaf, but then why start with the comparatively small case of undergraduate publications...
...Americans will find no responsibility in Greece. They must take what there is with them. They will find no policy in Greece save a mixture of sloth and violence. They must create the policy. They will get little support from either side, for both are extremists. They must create their own moderates. They must expect dislike, ingratitude, and double-dealing...
...evening falls, the potato seekers drift back to the Autobahn. Some have full knapsacks; others are emptyhanded. A father and three daughters wave down a passing American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer...
Down on the Quai d'Orsay, the men of 16 nations looked at the world and labored to save something of it. If they had drawn pictures of what the world looked like to them, the pictures would not have been happy. Not far away, in the dowdy Luxembourg Museum, their grey thoughts were contradicted by 1,500 colorful pictures...
...strong enough to keep the requests within reason. If we get into this thing we will have to let the Eastern European countries in; that means they will be trading freely with Western Europe, and will be drawn out of our orbit. We must back away and try to save what we can-Eastern Europe...